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\begin{article}%
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\end{article}



%%% what goes where?
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\begin{article}%
{title}%
{author}%
{affiliation}%
{abstract
}
main text of the article
\end{article}
bibliography if it must be here, but better in an external .bbl file



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\begin{article}%
{Who was the first astronomer?}%
{Carl Sagan}%
{Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA}%
{Put the abstract here and end the last line with two slashes as in this 
example\\
}

Here is where the actual main text of the article starts.  Note the 
blank line above.  Write it as you would write any other article.

In particular, figures and tables can be included.  Just use the basic 
LaTeX commands and don't try to format anything as that will be handled 
automatically.
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\begin{figure}[htbp] 
\centering 
%can include .pdf, .jpg, .png; convert .ps or .eps with ps2pdf first
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figure.jpg}
\caption{Just write the caption text here.
\end{figure}
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More text.

\end{article}
\begin{thebibliography}{10}
\bibitem{Andersen91aarv}
J.~{Andersen}, \textit{A\&ARv}, \textbf{3}, 91, 1991.
\bibitem{Hog+00aa}
E.~{H{\o}g} \textit{et~al.}, \textit{A\&A}, \textbf{355}, L27, 2000.
\end{thebibliography}